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Jim Gray missing

Weather conditions were apparently mild that day. Hope they find him alive and well.

Jim is a great guy - I had the opportunity to meet him at several occasions. He has written a lot of publications on transaction processing, scalability and performance. One of his famous book and publication is Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques - The bible of transaction processing!

Gray received U. C. Berkeley's first computer science doctorate,
and was actively engaged in timesharing computing on Cray-designed (CDC 6400) equipment pre-Thompson, pre-joy, and
contemporaneously with the old BCC (Berkeley Computer Corporation).
Heartfelt best wishes for the Turing-Award winner and family.